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Showing posts with label it's true. Show all posts

Thursday, May 1, 2025

Deeply Moved

 

John 11:38-44


Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.” When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”




It's true, this story. 


He has raised the dead. Surely He can raise the living.




Friday, March 9, 2018

The God Who



God loves you.

Which God?


The God of the garden? The God of the sky? 
The One with the lightning bolts?


If you don’t know,

God knows.


That God. The God who knows you.

The God who has never left you.


Though you didn’t call, the God who answered.


The God who knows your name.

You don’t think anyone does? You’re wrong.

That God. The One who sometimes says you are wrong.


The God who knew that song before you did (and led you to it). 
The God who showed you something you never would have guessed. 


Personal. Serene. Not in a hurry. 

The God who prevented the war you never knew was about to happen 
and walked you through the one that did. That God.